Hans Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901, belonged to the group of young Czech composers following in the footsteps of Leoš Janáček, (who died in 1928), who had received their cultural formative years in the final years of the Danube Monarchy. On the one hand, they took part in a process of national self-discovery, which was politically sealed with the attainment of state sovereignty by Czechoslovakia at the end of the First World War in 1918, but on the other hand they moved intellectually in a ...